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Reserve Your Spot: 2024 Engage-Empower-Connect Summit
Join SCFD, Denver Botanic Gardens, and the Collaborative of the SCFD from 1:00 - 6:00 p.m. on September 16 for the 2024 Engage-Empower-Connect Summit at Denver Botanic Gardens' Freyer-Newman Center. This year's FREE summit will feature engaging presentations on several nonprofit management topics. The agenda for the day is as follows:
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Scrappy Fundraising (1:00 - 2:00 p.m.) - Learn unique and resourceful ways to garner support from individual donors, plan impactful fundraisers, and secure in-kind donations and sponsorships from organization representatives including Sara Moore, Executive Director of Colorado Dragon Boat, Amanda Berg Wilson, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Catamounts, and Joe Pettit, Director of Development of Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
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Sustaining The Spark (2:30 - 3:30 p.m.) - Explore how to maintain your passion for nonprofit work by prioritizing healthy workplace cultures with a discussion featuring Marcia Donziger, Interim Executive Director of Art Garage, Malik Robinson, President and CEO of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, and Mike Yankovich, President and CEO of Children's Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus. The discussion will be moderated by Ginger White Brunetti, Director of the City of Aurora Library and Cultural Services Department.
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Keynote Presentation (4:00 - 5:00 p.m.) - Papa Dia, Executive Director of the African Leadership Group, will inspire with an address on the power of unity and collaboration.
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Happy Hour Reception (5:00 - 6:00 p.m.) - Network with fellow attendees over hors d'ouevres and beverages.
Please register by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, August 26. Registration may close prior to August 26 if event capacity is reached, so make sure to reserve your spot early!
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What you need, when you need it
Just a friendly reminder that we are continuing to add information, tutorials, grant deadlines, and other important details to pages dedicated to your tier of partnership with the district. Please use these resources to help answer your questions.
Tier I | Tier II | Tier III
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Know an organization that’s right for SCFD?
Eligibility applications for organizations new to SCFD are now open. Please share with other organizations who you’d like to see join our family. Eligibility applications will close on September 11, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. You may find a tutorial for the application here. Only new organizations seeking eligibility are required to complete this, currently funded organizations are exempt.
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Going the Distance with India Wood
Over the course of 10 days in May, local naturalist and writer, India Wood, embarked on a diagonal hike across the Denver metro region. She had already hiked the first known “X” through Colorado from 2020-2022, traversing 1,500 miles of farms, ranches, and forests across the state. This time around, she wanted to see where much of Colorado’s population lives and works along the front range – by foot. Given that she was going to walk through each of SCFD’s seven counties, Wood decided to raise awareness of the district as she walked. So, she set off on her journey from Parker to Boulder armed with an SCFD banner for her backpack and a pocketful of SCFD stickers to share with residents along the way.
Wood’s first encounter with the SCFD began in an unlikely place: a cattle ranch in northwestern Colorado....
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Roundtables from The Collaborative of the SCFD
The Collaborative of the SCFD hosts roundtables, trainings and networking events, which are open to all SCFD Tiers. Please RSVP to Jannett Matusiak (Jannett@Collaborativescfd.org) and Beverly Wu beverly@collaborativescfd.org) if you would like to attend the events below.
Education Roundtable
Thursday, September 12, 2024 | 10:00 – 11:30am
Arvada Center – Studio 22
6901 Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada, CO 80003
Please join The Collaborative at its upcoming Fall Education Roundtable, where educators will have the opportunity to connect and share updates and ideas in person.
Volunteer Roundtable
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | 3:00 – 4:30pm
Swallow Hill Music
71 E Yale Ave, Denver, CO 80210
Please join The Collaborative at its upcoming Fall Volunteer Roundtable. This is an opportunity to chat about volunteer initiatives and efforts. Bring yourself, discussion topics, and questions!
Education Roundtable
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | 3:00 – 4:30pm
Lakewood Heritage Culture & the Arts
801 S Yarrow Street, Lakewood, CO 80226
Please join the Collaborative for the last Education Roundtable of the year. This is an opportunity for educators and education coordinators to have the opportunity to connect and share updates and ideas in person.
Volunteer Roundtable
Monday, December 9, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:30pm
Clyfford Still Museum
1250 Bannock St, Denver, CO 80204
Please join The Collaborative for the last Volunteer Roundtable in 2024! This is an opportunity to chat about volunteer initiatives and efforts. Bring yourself, discussion topics, and questions!
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Take CCI’s Strategic Planning Survey
Colorado Creative Industries is creating its next strategic plan, and needs your input on what’s working well, what’s needed, and what big ideas should be considered. Join a public conversation and help shape our statewide priorities.
How’s Colorado’s arts and culture sector doing today? What are our biggest needs and opportunities? How can Colorado Creative Industries support the statewide arts, culture and creative industries ecosystem? Take the survey by August 8, 2024.
Submit Denver Arts Week Events and Deals
Even though summer hasn’t come to an official end, it’s already time to think about Denver Arts Week, happening November 1-10! Please submit events and deals to the Denver Arts Week site. By submitting events, they will be displayed and promoted throughout VISIT DENVER’s Denver Arts Week marketing campaign. Participation is FREE, and you can submit as many events and deals as you’d like!
What is Denver Arts Week?
- Now in its 18th year, Denver Arts Week is a celebration of all things arts & culture in The Mile High City.
- Features more than 400 events throughout the city and metro area.
- Spanning all arts and cultural genres including visual arts, performing arts, film and literature, music and more.
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Promoted via extensive local and regional marketing campaigns that link to the Denver Arts Week website.
Questions? Please email Abby Schirmacher at aschirmacher@visitdenver.com.
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Leadership Veteran Program Accepting Applications
LV is a comprehensive 9-month nonprofit program. It unites the veteran-serving community through education, peer collaboration, and engagement with prominent community leaders. Hosted in person at the University of Denver, LV features presentations from DU faculty, nonprofit sector experts, and leaders from the business, veteran, and nonprofit communities. Leadership Veteran empowers organizations with the best practices they need to thrive in supporting veterans.
This program is ideal for:
- Those currently working or volunteering at a veteran-serving organization
- Individuals interested in pursuing a career in veteran services
We actively seek diverse voices and innovative veteran service solutions.
LV sessions offer cutting-edge instruction in current topics relevant to the veteran nonprofit sector, including:
- Fundraising
- Event planning
- Strategic planning
- Volunteer management
- Financial management
- Social media strategy
- Media relations
- Board governance
The program kicks off with an overnight retreat on October 4-5, 2024 in Florissant, CO. Following the retreat, full-day sessions will be held at the University of Denver on the first Friday of each month from November 2024 to June 2025.
Session Dates:
- 2024: October 4-5, November 1, December 6
- 2025: January 3, February 7, March 7, April 4, May 2, June 6
Apply by August 12 at LeadershipVeteran.org.
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New Staff? Make Sure They're Signed Up for SCFD Email Communications!
As the 2024 grant cycle continues, please ensure that any new staff at your organization who might be involved with SCFD funds signs up for our email communications. We send regular updates to organizations by Tier regarding grant deadlines, trainings and more.
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"Elevating the SCFD" Shout Out
As part of our ongoing work with you to help raise the profile of the SCFD for residents across the metro area, we’ll be adding a hat tip to organizations who have found a way to include SCFD in their outreach. The goal is to highlight all the ways your organization can help.
We welcome all funded partners to join us in elevating the value of SCFD. Need ideas or content? Check out our Communicators Toolkit.
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Hat Tip to The Art Garage
A special thank you to The Art Garage for their newsletter shoutout to SCFD!
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Register your Free Days with Us
If you have free days, programs or events to share with the public, you can submit them for inclusion on the SCFD website. This is one of the most visited pages on our website. Submit your Free Days.
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Did you know you can stay up to date on all things SCFD more than just once a month? Check out our News You Can Use webpage! | | | | |
